Sentences with phrase «scale mining efforts»

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He said the country is currently entering a new era of putting efforts in place to formalize the small - scale mining sector «so as to achieve sustainable mining with sound environmental practices.»

The efforts have yielded some positive results including a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses for small - scale mining.

But there are problems here as well: The scale of the mining and transportation effort to harvest these minerals would be enormous and extremely expensive.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories — The scale of the conservation effort is staggering: 470,000 square miles — half the size of the Louisiana Purchase, five times the size of the U.S. national park system — forever shielded from logging, mining and damming.

Indeed, it is sending a brine solution out onto the Flats in the wake of its mining activities, but with a few critical differences: Intrepid's replenishment efforts are on a greatly diminished scale from what is needed and fall far short of what Reilly agreed to do.

Interested in «reclaiming» American land for large - scale art, Smithson presented more than fifty proposals to various strip - mining companies, but was stymied in these efforts.